git-gui child windows are still blank

Rob McDonald· Jan 13, 2019, 07:11 UTC · lore

The release of Mac OS Mojave has broken git-gui such that it is unusable.

This issue was raised by Ken Sebesta back in November, but I can't reply directly via gmail. Message-ID: CAABTFJPpmThrrwP6pb5gZ82fb8yKteLpDcXTCQS8p_7WZ0Ne5Q at mail dot gmail dot com

The main window opens fine, but any child window (say when you press 'Push') is entirely blank.

I haven't been able to find any sign that work has progressed on this -- has anyone made headway?

Rob

Kenn Sebesta· Jan 17, 2019, 14:26 UTC · lore

Re: git-gui child windows are still blank

Good to know the upstream error has been fixed, thanks a lot Rob for investigating.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8066794 suggests that we can never hope for 8.6.9 to be installed as part of the macOS framework. However, all is not lost as a commenter suggests a workaround of bundling Tk with the app. Is this something which can be done for macOS git binaries?

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:23 AM Rob McDonald <rob.a.mcdonald@gmail.com> wrote:

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> It looks like this is an issue with Tk that has taken some time to resolve.  It should be fixed in 8.6.9, which was released in November.
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> Rob
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> On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 11:11 PM Rob McDonald <rob.a.mcdonald@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The release of Mac OS Mojave has broken git-gui such that it is unusable.
>>
>> This issue was raised by Ken Sebesta back in November, but I can't
>> reply directly via gmail.  Message-ID:
>> CAABTFJPpmThrrwP6pb5gZ82fb8yKteLpDcXTCQS8p_7WZ0Ne5Q at mail dot gmail
>> dot com
>>
>> The main window opens fine, but any child window (say when you press
>> 'Push') is entirely blank.
>>
>> I haven't been able to find any sign that work has progressed on this
>> -- has anyone made headway?
>>
>> Rob